Gotochina

” This website is the result of a study-trip to Shanghai and Beijing, made by 17 Norwegian students in February 2008. ”
Great site, great use of HTML / CSS, for a moment I thought it was Flash.

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Smashing magazine - Infographics

Data visualizations and infographics can make complex datasets easier to understand and comprehend. By creating a graphical represenatation of data and statistics, complicated concepts and information can make more sense in less time.

Fearon Hay Architects, Mountain Retreat

The mountain retreat is a small structure set within a high country station occupying 1,300 hectares on the south facing shores of Lake Wakatipu, Central Otago.

Wood

A music video by simon & mcbess , music by mcbess.

Erik Johansson

Original and imaginative photo manipulation by Swedish artist Erik Johansson

Mads Berg Illustration

Lovely, beautify executed and happy work. These will make you smile.

We choose the moon

The Web site — WeChooseTheMoon.org — goes live at 8:02 a.m. Thursday, 90 minutes before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It will track the capsule’s route from the Earth to the Moon, ending…

The moon walkers: Twelve men who have visited another world

What did it take to become a member of the most exclusive club in human history? From Guardian.co.uk

Classic records. Classic Penguin

Beautiful work by Huw Gwilliam. A great marriage between album art and the icon design of Penguin paperbacks. I still drool over the original Penguin cover designs.

Han Solo

This is an original Factors iron-on, the company that held the license to produce Star Wars iron ons, among other things. I am going to have to get this printed onto a t-shirt now.

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Leica M8 - All White special edition

Such a pretty camera. The M8 is beautiful camera anyway but this special edition looks stunning in all white. It will be produced in very limited numbers. The last M8 special edition was the ‘Safari’ M8, which sold for $10,000.…

Nami

Nami is the Japanese word for wave, but it’s also the title of a photobook by Syoin Kajii. Via Today & Tomorrow.

Andy Gilmore - Black Math

Math can be beautiful. Pool gallery, Berlin. ( Now thinking of ways I can arrange a trip to Berlin )

Colorama - Tilt shift goodness

A great commercial with a clever twist on the whole tilt-shift aesthetic. Upper First have a great case study page with some text and photos on how they did it.

Greg Williams Photography

Some really nice work. Very cinematic

Buubuu Farm on the App store

I am happy because my first iPhone app is now available on the App store as a free download. It’s a really simple app … but you have to start somewhere, right?

This Studio - Kristen Whittle

Minimal, clean looks for architect Kristen Whittle by This Studio.

Luke Byrne Photography

White heat
Great composition, great lighting and to die for colours.

The True Love Project

What does true love look like?

BBC Audio slideshow: The Information Revolution

In the 1950s and 60s giant mainframe computers gradually became a common sight in large companies - but it was not until the mid-70s that the idea of home computing started to take off.

Professor David Reynolds looks at the origins…

Porsches

Some beautiful photographs of some vintage Porsches.

ALX Architect label xain

Stunning. I love this house design by Tokyo architect Junichi Sampei. It is designed to offer enough space for a small family and dance studio design studio.

Aircraft

Often it takes an artist to show us that the familiar is in fact truly remarkable. Jeffrey Milstein’s elegant photographs of commercial airliners have quickly become contemporary icons, exhibited at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in NYC, Paul Kopiekin Gallery in…

Joshua Distler

I love the use of grids here, simple but very effective. It is a bit too dark for me but it is a great portfolio website none the less.

” Joshua Distler is a designer and entrepreneur who strives to balance…

Stop that fridge!

Stop that fridge. He is running away with the milk!

The 1KB CSS Grid

Here is a fresh take on the CSS grid (loosely based on Nathan Smith’s 960 Grid System). Its mission is to be lightweight. And, as I’ll show in part 2, it can be used to streamline page templates for content…

OOXXOO

Work by Patrick Fry. Double sided poster designed for the launch issue of arts magazine, OOXXOO. The magazine asked designers, writers, photographers and illustrators to respond to the theme of synaesthesia.